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Monument to Alfred Stevens, d.1875. Coved Renaissance style
sarcophagus of Portland stone with fish-scale ornament,
covered with cast-iron slab with raised lettering, by James
Gamble. Epitaph refers to Stevens as 'ARTIST AND SCULPTOR...
THE MONUMENT TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON IN ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
IS HIS WORK'.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Stevens was the leading exponent of the
Renaissance style in mid-Victorian England; the Wellington
monument (completed 1912) was his masterpiece. This
sarcophagus is a version of that within the Wellington
monument and was executed by Stevens's assistant.
(Towndrow KR: Alfred Stevens: London: -1939: 257).

Listing NGR: TQ2833486978

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